World Time

A-Z A complete listing of all watches shown in alphabetical order.

Mechanical Watches powered by a traditional, mechanical movement.

Quartz Watches with battery-powered quartz movements.

Electric/Electronic Battery-powered watches with electro-mechanical, electric or electronic movements.

British Watches made in Great Britain.

Chinese Watches made in China.

Russian Watches made in the Soviet Union or modern-day Russia.

Japanese Watches made in Japan.

American Watches made in the USA or by/for American companies.

Military/Space Military and Space related watches including homage and commemorative pieces.

Pilot/Aviator Watches intended for pilots or with some aviation connection.

Sport/Diver Watches associated with a sport or a particular sporting event or personality.

Pocket Pocket watches.

Movements For those interested in what makes watches tick! A selection of watch movement pictures.

Dating Vintage Watches A rough guide to dating your vintage watch by its movement or case serial number.

Screensavers / Virtual Add a little horological magic to your computer desktop

World Time Custom web site clocks displaying the time in Britain, China, Russia, Japan and America.

Links A selection of links to the interesting websites of other collectors.

As you might well have gathered, I have an interest in watches from all over the world (particularly Britain, America, Russia, Japan and China) so I thought it might be cool to keep track of the time in those countries with some custom web site clocks from Norwegian site timeanddate.com run by Steffen Thorsen. The clocks synchronise independently from your computer clock and automatically adjust for daylight savings times so they should show the correct time even if your computer clock is set incorrectly. Hey, you might even try setting your watches by them! Country information is from the excellent CIA World Factbook.

	UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Capital: Washington, DC Geographic coordinates: 38 53 N, 77 02 W Time difference: UTC-5 (during Standard Time) Daylight Saving Time: +1hr, begins second Sunday in March; ends first Sunday in November Note: The 50 United States cover six time zones A red, white and blue clock that I think Uncle Sam would be proud to wear!
	UNITED KINGDOM: Capital: London Geographic Coordinates: 51 30 N, 0 10 W Time Difference: UTC 0 Daylight Saving Time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October A traditional military/pilot style watch befitting the home of Greenwich Mean Time.
	RUSSIA: Capital: Moscow Geographic Coordinates: 55 45 N, 37 35 E Time Difference: UTC+4* Daylight Saving Time: ~~+1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in Octobe~~r* Note: Russia is divided into 9 time zones Any resemblance to Raketas past or present is entirely intentional! * As of 2011, Russia abolished the concept of adjusting their clocks forward in the Spring and backward in the Autumn and has decided to remain permanently on "Summertime". As such, Moscow is now +4 hours ahead of UTC rather than +3 hours.
	CHINA: Capital: Beijing Geographic Coordinates: 39 55 N, 116 23 E Time Difference: UTC+8 (13 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) Note: Despite its size, all of China falls within one time zone; many people in Xinjiang Province observe an unofficial "Xinjiang timezone" of UTC+6, two hours behind Beijing An exotic clock using Chinese characters... if you have the right fonts installed.
	JAPAN: Capital: Tokyo Geographic Coordinates: 35 41 N, 139 45 E Time Difference: UTC+9 A "rising sun" clock with extended white batons to represent sun rays.

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